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Back Roads: Quiet on the set; eat!: Ding-Dong Café, Sauk Centre
When the trains pulled up their tracks, many of the businesses along them closed their doors. The Ding-Dong Café, in Sauk Centre, covered its walls in train memorabilia and kept right on serving.
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Back Roads: Ode to a trail
Sakatah Singing Hills State Trail, Mankato
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Back Roads: From modest beginnings
Northland Woolens, Nelson
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Back Roads: Pictures from the past
You wouldn’t notice much if you were driving by. From a distance it looks like another rocky outcropping on the prairie. But this Sioux quartzite in Cottonwood County holds spiritual significance for American Indians and historical interest for anyone who stops to view.
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Back Roads: Veterans’ legacy
Three quarters of a century ago a westbound train steamed into New London in Kandiyohi County. Most of the passengers who stepped onto the depot’s platform that day were unemployed World War I veterans.
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Back Roads: Not so stubborn
Marvin Winkels can tell many stories about mules but one he is swift to dispute is “stubborn as a mule.”
“That’s not true,” he said. “They’re extremely intelligent and protective of themselves.”
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Back Roads: A cut above
Chuck and Kathy Parker of Cornerstone Pines have a clear vision for the 100 acres of wooded and rolling hills — with some 9,000 Christmas trees — they purchased near Grey Eagle two years ago.
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Back Roads: Restored glory
St. Adrian was founded and named for an Irish saint in 1877. The first congregation was Irish, but when they moved out to St. Paul, Germans moved in. “Now the only thing Irish here is the pastor,” said Father Timothy Hall with a smile.
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Back Roads: Fountain of youth
Spring Grove Soda Pop makes some tasty pop in the southeastern Minnesota town of Spring Grove.
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Back Roads: Pork project
Misery loves company? No, that’s much too negative a sentiment for what was going on over the lunch hour Oct. 9 at the Econofoods parking lot in St. Peter.
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